Spineless Books

Founded 20-02-2002, Spineless Books is an independent literary publishing
house dedicated
to the production and distribution
of innovative
literature, with an emphasis on
collaborative
writing, formal experimentation, and utopian
thought.

Publisher and proprietor William Gillespie got a novel commercially published, which was distracting. And published a child, who is dedicated to distraction. While Keyhole Factory is now available from Soft Skull Press,
there are still copies of the original Spineless hardback on Amazon.com.

Limited edition letterpress printing. This poem, the longest known sustained consonant poem, uses the entire alphabet in every line, using each consonant one at a time, to tell the story of an Iraq war veteran. This limited edition pamphlet was letterpressed with plates of original abededafrian artwork by Chris Merritt. $5 plus shipping.

Ordering Books

All books can be reliably ordered online from this store.
Many are available from other online booksellers. Most of our books can be ordered
by retail bookstores through Ingram or with their reliable Espresso Book Machine

Contact

Information for Booksellers

Or we can just agree up front that you will not pay me for the books. Right now I'm good with that.

Look, all we want to do is put our books in your store where an adventerous reader might be smitten.

University bookstores tend to be inflexible but reliable, and we accomodate their procedures and rates.

Or we just reverse-shoplift copies of our books directly onto their shelves, their database be damned.

Credit cards are accepted
only through PayPal.

Checks or money orders are made payable to "Spineless Books."

Submissions

We are not accepting unsolicited submissions at this time.
Thus we cannot guarantee the response, return, or respectful handling of submissions
sent by people who either did not read or consider this statement.